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Software Engineering vocabulary · Debugging and Troubleshooting

Crash dump

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In software engineering, crash dump means: A file or record saved when a program crashes, containing memory and state data for later debugging.

In Turkish: çökme dökümü

How it is used

Used after serious failures that are hard to reproduce live. Engineers inspect it with debugging tools to identify what the process was doing.

Example sentences

  1. Support attached the crash dump from the customer laptop, which finally showed the native library failing during startup.

    Here the term means saved failure data that reveals internal program state after the crash, not just a short error message.

  2. We kept the crash dump from staging so the debugger could inspect memory without waiting for the bug to happen again.

    In this example, the term refers to a snapshot that allows offline investigation even when the crash is rare or difficult to reproduce.

Common collocations

  • analyze a crash dump
  • collect a crash dump
  • crash dump file
  • crashTo stop working suddenly because of an error, so that the program closes or stops responding. Also a noun: 'a crash'.
  • debugTo search for the cause of a problem in a program and remove it, often by running the code step by step and checking values.

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